Answer:Metacognition
Explanation:
Metacognition is the self awareness and control of an individual's thought and learning process.it involves having the perception and understanding of an information, learning and using strategies that improve learning process, accessing whether the strategies meet the learning objective and having a recollective memory to register the learnt information.
As children reach adolescence, their thinking capabilities is heightened as they are more aware of themselves making them to re analyse and rethink known ideologies and beliefs . This happens because at this stage, there is a upsurge of Metacognition as the pre-frontal cortex of the brain responsible for executive cognitive processes and functions gets rewired and starts to mature.